Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President reiterated his desire to negotiate, but in the softest terms yet. He made no demand for a prior, specific quid pro quo from Hanoi. "The United States is willing to stop all aerial and naval bombardment of North Viet Nam when this will lead promptly to productive discussion," he said. "We of course assume that while discussions proceed, North Viet Nam would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation." For the first time, Johnson seemed to be wigwagging a readiness to stop the bombing and enter into talks without advance guarantees or gestures from Hanoi...
...uprising followed. Police Superintendent John Kennedy tried in vain to calm the rioters. The mob, reported one witness, "beat him, dragged him through the streets by his head, pitched him into a horsepond, rolled him into mud gutters, dragged him through piles of filth indescribable." Soldiers, police, militia and naval forces were required to quell the draft riots. Meade's army was so weakened by disappointing recruitment and withdrawals for guard duty in New York and other Northern cities, it was unable to resume the initiative after the Battle of Gettysburg...
...United States is willing immediately to stop aerial and naval bombardment of North Vietnam when this will lead promptly to productive discussion. We would assume that while discussions proceed, North Vietnam would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation...
Still, with only air routes open, Biafra has been effectively isolated by the Federals' naval and land blockade. There were, reportedly, serious shortages of essential goods as early as the first week in August--when the blockade was barely three months old. Using its foreign exchange reserves, Nigeria has bolstered its military superiority with Soviet bloc jets--more than a match for Biafra's one World War II surplus bomber...
...Corps instead, studied so hard that he was finally able to pass the service exams. Last week John Newman, now 18, became the seventh of civilian Carpenter Kirby Newman's nine sons to enter the Navy-making the Newman family the first in the memory of naval officials to have seven brothers on active duty at the same time. Idaho communities celebrated "Newman Day"; John's home town of Twin Falls proudly proclaimed itself the "Home of the Newman Navy"; and Secretary of the Navy Paul R. Ignatius sent a telegram expressing his and President Johnson...